According to NASA, there is a green comet named Lulin approaching Earth. One astronomer calls it “a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now.” […]
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The year 2000 was not a good time to be young and in charge, particularly in New Jersey. It was October of that year when Union City mayor Rudy Garcia […]
The Global Billionaires Club may be getting smaller by the minute, but there are still pockets of heavy growth. For example, Mexican drug lords are doing well. That’s why Forbes […]
A wake –up Europe will say NO, NO to Americarnrn Europe traditionally has very thoughtful Philosophers. rn rn Europeans, they can think and think deeply. rn rn Why Rush Limbaugh can be a Philosopher King and King of GOP in US? Why a comedian, Jon Stewart performs the job of CBS’s 60 minutes? There must be something wrong with this country.rn rn rnrn
Brian Doherty, a senior editor at Reason magazine and the author of This is Burning Man and Radicals for Capitalism, reflects on whether the hero of the new graphic novel […]
Another day, another mainstream media piece that misses the mark on Facebook. I have an idea for my fellow print journalists. Since owners are now secretly colluding to contrive ways […]
Ever since US Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins flubbed Canadian Geography 101 during a live CBC interview in 2005, relations between the two countries have been a little awkward. But […]
The Darkest Age of Journalism Take 2: Cramer vs Jon Stewart
The bravest and noble Lady Katharine Graham, the late Publisher of Washington Post was long gone!
The spirit of young, hungry and innocent Bob Woodward was gone too!
A 29 year-old porn star named Stormy Daniels is thinking about running for U.S. senate in Louisiana, in a campagin to unseat Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, who you may […]
AIG Financial Products founder Howard Sosin on why the government needs to assume temporary ownership of failed banks.
Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations. Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence. The source of the abuse or trauma is immaterial: the perpetrators could be dysfunctional or absent parents, teachers, other adults, or peers.
While nearly everyone knows that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, nobody seems to know that March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day. While there have been some traditional Italian celebrations […]
On Feb. 27, 09, Prof. Krugman in his NYT column stated that “ this budget looks very, very good”, that worries me!rnrn
James Bowman writes in the Wall Street Journal today that, beginning next month, the College Board will allow high-school students who have taken the SATs multiple times to submit only […]
Big Think takes privacy very seriously and wants to ensure that our users are protected. As we build a global forum for discussion and debate, it is vital that you–the […]
This is an interpretation of Niccolo Machivelli’s 1517 imcomplete poem L’Asino. The so-called cynic cold-blooded advisor of evil shows a ‘parenthetical’ aestheticism in his perception of friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the great prospects of aesthetic politics comes to be a useful tool for the interpretation of Machiavelli’s ‘poetic therapy’.
The Obama administration has announced a plan to join forces with private equity firms and hedge funds to forge public-private partnerships to reverse the housing and credit crisis. This comes […]
It has become fashionable to castigate Twitter – the microblogging service – as an expression of rampant narcissism. Yet, narcissists are verbose and they do not take kindly to limitations imposed on them by third parties.
Prof. Paul Krugman, Bank Nationalization! Never!